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Lines from Lesvos

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It is April, the Greek economy is in free fall and we are on the first charter flight of the season. Everyone on the flight is connected to bird-watching, indeed, this flight, and others like it, exist only because of … Continue reading

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Flamenco Reprise

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Regular readers of this blog will recall a number of posts earlier in the year on the Festival de Jerez – a flamenco festival.  Having taken many photographs of the venues, I promptly left my camera abroad and was reliant … Continue reading

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Waterloo

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June 18th 2015 is the bicentennial anniversary of the battle of Waterloo.  What better time to pay a return visit to Apsley House, the London home of the Duke of Wellington?  Worth visiting at any time of year, Apsley House … Continue reading

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Portraits of artists & friends….

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… is the title of the Singer Sargent exhibition currently showing at the National Portrait Gallery. I attended on a blustery Monday morning, amid tourists and pensioners, though the crowds weren’t too pressing. And it’s a most appropriate title.  Unlike … Continue reading

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Out & About with ‘The Village’

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  Last Saturday I was at MacFarlane’s of Abbeville Road to promote ‘The Village’, as one of MacFarlane’s ‘local heroes’.  Robert Marsham’s excellent fromagerie  will be hosting a series of ‘Meet the Author’ promotions over the summer, all with writers local to … Continue reading